Rogelio Jaime

Rogelio Jaime (6 February 1880-17 March 1912) was a Mexican Army officer who served as a general of Ignacio Sanchez from 1911 until his death.

Biography
Jaime was born in Matehuala in San Luis Potosi Province of Mexico to an impoverished former aristocrat family. His father Rigoberto Jaime had spent all of his money away on women and drink, leaving Jaime in little position to get a job as a politician like his Mestizo ancestors. Instead, he chose to join the Mexican Army in 1898, and served as a Major. In 1910, Jaime was promised greater pay by Ignacio Sanchez, a rising cavalry general, if he assisted in his revolution. The revolution succeeded and Jaime was promoted to Major-General under Sanchez in the Army.

When in 1911 a revolution led by peasant Abraham Reyes broke out, Jaime was posted as the Commandant of Punta Orgullo. He skirmished with American troops along the border, resulting in the Battle of Chester Bridge on 28 April, which had no clear result. His forces eventually withdrew in order to fight Reyes' Rebels, and exacted hard (in)justice on the inhabitants who chose to side with the rebels: he summarily executed many men and women by firing squad, some in the middle of the prairie. When Escalera fell to the rebels Jaime fled his post and joined the defenses of Mexico City. In late 1911, when the city fell due to the defection of a certain cavalry unit, Jaime was among the captured.

Rogelio Jaime was given a post under Abraham Reyes as a General in the new Mexican Army, but he became corrupt and in 1912 began extorting money from the people of Chuparosa. Jaime was brought before a court and summarily executed by Reyes by firing squad in front of the Chuparosans in the town square.